I Tried Cafe Charlie’s Seafood Pizza, And Lived To Tell The Tale
When I saw that the old standby Cafe Charlie (40th btw Mad+5th) had added seafood pizza to their menu, I stopped in to see what it was all about. They have a decent mandoo bar-the only such one in that area of Midtown-so I wasn’t too scared about trying seafood from them. I was also intrigued by their sign of “gold” or “white” seafood pizza. What exactly would “gold” pizza entail? Answer: every Italian’s worst nightmare… yellow cheese on seafood.
The pie is your regular 8″ personal pie, with a very thin, unimpressive cracker crust. I was definitely put off when I realized they don’t make the pizza fresh. In other words, before they warm it up in the oven, it’s been sitting around for who knows how long. When eating a regular cheese pie, that’s okay. When eating seafood, that’s shades of wrong. The seafood on top is shrimp, calamari, and fake crab meat, tossed with olives and slivers of mushroom. The seafood had mozzarella and American cheese sprinkled on top, which might be a no-no for some of you. Underneath was a small layer of generic marinara sauce. Nothing tasted off, but it would have definitely tasted better fresh and hotter. As a fan of the clam pie, I know that seafood can work on pizza, but this wasn’t exactly it. Luckily, I did survive to tell the tale.
Cafe Charlie, 9 E. 40th Street (btw. Mad+5th), 212-725-1420
Posted by Blondie at 11:45 am, September 21st, 2011 under Cafe Charlie.
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This is going to kill someone.
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ML gets its groove back with reviews like this wave-off from Blondie and Tom’s write-up of Five Star Grill. Thanks, Y’all.
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I spent a couple weeks working down the street and went into Charlie pretty much every day. That’s roughly 9 instances of being scared by the sign outside advertising this.
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Holly crap, hope you didn’t pay much for that salmonella with cheese. Glad you are ok!
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I’m sorry, but those two words, seafood and pizza should never come close to each other.
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Frank Pepe would disagree. Me too.
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Brave girl! I’ve had fried calamri pizza before and it was lovely. Haven’t seen it in NYC though. NJ is where it’s at.
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I was an ardent no cheese on seafood person until I visited Chile and had scallops on the half shell covered in melted parmesan. Amazing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59445098@N00/2176236047/in/set-72157603665171533
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Cheese and seafood, normally, are super delicious together, but that picture in the post just looks like an abomination.
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Is that a picture of what they’re selling, or what you puked up after you ate it?
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Not only is this disgusting but it’s also dangerous.
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omg CAT BUS!!!! WELCOME!!!! (I have nothing to say but ‘blech’ about the above ‘pizza’)
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Thanks Sarah good to be here!
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Zach, give this girl a raise! (Money not the other kind.)
Bravo Blondie Bravo
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Add some sausage to that pie and you can complete the Bad Jew Trifecta.
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I heard that Italians generally abhor the combination of seafood and cheese w/ pasta…not that they think much of our “pizza” in the first place.
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This looks like a spill you might find on the bathroom floor at Chuck-E-Cheese’s.
OH GOD WHY?!?!! Stuff like that are what nightmares are made of.